Penelope Jackson is a consummate editor: A steady hand and a discriminating eye. Most importantly, her imagination is housed in her heart, and so she sympathizes with the author, offering velvet chiding and steely guiding, when and where needed. I commend her highly as a superb, close reader, who appreciates that creation descends from recreation, that the "work" is a result of "play," and that wit is dull without whimsy.

—George Elliott Clarke, author of Lasso the Wind, George & Rue, Red, and more; Toronto Poet Laureate and winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry.

What would I do without Penelope Jackson? I have worked with her for almost eight years, and she is consistently outdoing herself, raising the bar for freelance editors everywhere. Her reputation is impeccable both inside the publishing house and with our authors—many of whom request her by name. To date Vagrant Press’s bestselling author, Lesley Crewe, has worked with Penelope on over ten books—and counting!

From a managing editor perspective, I can always count on Penelope to be enthusiastic, professional, and deliver exceptional work. She’s also a delightful human, which sweetens the deal. Penelope has taken manuscripts from we-can’t-publish-this material to the this-might-win-an-award level with her vigorous yet gentle ghostwriting, and has helped writers, both new and accomplished, create the best version of their work, with stronger voices, tighter plots, and more believable and authentic characters.

I recommend Penelope for any job involving words, no matter how big or small—I just ask that you don’t steal her away from me, because I honestly couldn’t do my job without her.

–Whitney Moran, managing editor, Nimbus Publishing & Vagrant Press

Not only have I used every service Penelope offers, I can actually track how her services have directly correlated to both a widening in my readership (blog and published books) and an increase in revenue through the published word. 

Being a writer is tough enough. By allowing another expert to wear her expert hats (editing, project manager, visionary) I've been able to focus on clarifying my voice and creating content that is carefully tended to by Penelope. 

—Katy Bowman, director of Nutritious Movement, author of ten bestselling books, including Move Your DNA and Movement Matters, and publisher of Propriometrics Press.

Penelope has a truthfulness about her that seeps into her editing style. She is very talented; her natural instincts have consistently made my novels much better and I trust her when she tells me something should be changed.

When you write, you immerse yourself in a story and sometimes get carried away. That's what happens when you're alone in your study for months. Luckily Penelope comes along and sweeps away all the unnecessary flotsam and jetsam that strangle the original idea. That is a great gift for any writer. I will always be grateful to her.

Sweet P is not only a gifted editor, she's an amazing musician and has the most adorable family! She'd be easy to hate if she wasn't so damn nice.

—Lesley Crewe, author of Nosy Parker, The Spoon Stealer, Are You Kidding Me?, and a lot more.

I’m always excited to begin the editing process with Penelope.
Whenever we work together the book suddenly becomes ours because I
know she cares about it as much as I do. I put my full trust in her
capable editorial hands. That doesn’t always come easy for writers
when we’re giving our precious baby over to someone else for editing.
Penelope puts her heart and soul into her editing and it shows. I love working with her. Together we make magic.

—Laura Best, author of Bitter, Sweet, Flying with a Broken Wing, Cammie Takes Flight, and the forthcoming Good Mother's Don’t

I can't imagine collaborating with anyone other than Penelope. From the highest view of story arc and character development to the finest points of style and consistency sentence-by-sentence, Penelope is the ideal reader. Most important, she cares about the parallel world in my mind as much as I do. She is my champion, my cheshire cat, and my brutal house matron. She is everything I need to get to the end, to do it well, and to want to do it again.

—Kate Inglis, author of The Dread Crew: Pirates Of The Backwoods, Flight Of The Griffons, If I Were a Zombie, and more.